the_rev:what_now: This asshole set off a bomb near the Boston Public Library. Now I'm farking furious.

Not being smartass here... but... it was the bomb's proximity to a library that you find upsetting?

I find the whole thing upsetting. This is a special day- a celebration of the Revolutionary War, a random holiday that only we have, the Marathon, a 11am Red Sox game (played early enough in the season that we all still have some hope), and a street party. This is when spring starts in Boston.

This Marathon isn't just Kenyens and crazy hardcore runners, it's regular people who spend a year preparing for this for a charity- a friend of mine is 6"5; and 250lbs and a few years ago he finished, because he was running for a cause.

The finish line is right outside the oldest public library in the country for a reason. "The Commonwealth Requires the Education of the People as the Safeguard of Order and Liberty".

what_now:the_rev: what_now: This asshole set off a bomb near the Boston Public Library. Now I'm farking furious.

Not being smartass here... but... it was the bomb's proximity to a library that you find upsetting?

I find the whole thing upsetting. This is a special day- a celebration of the Revolutionary War, a random holiday that only we have, the Marathon, a 11am Red Sox game (played early enough in the season that we all still have some hope), and a street party. This is when spring starts in Boston.

This Marathon isn't just Kenyens and crazy hardcore runners, it's regular people who spend a year preparing for this for a charity- a friend of mine is 6"5; and 250lbs and a few years ago he finished, because he was running for a cause.

The finish line is right outside the oldest public library in the country for a reason. "The Commonwealth Requires the Education of the People as the Safeguard of Order and Liberty".

ManateeGag:so, who has the list of attacks after 9/11 but before Obama took office ready?

Sadly, it doesn't matter. You can beat them over the head with that list. You can carve every item on that list into their skin. They will always forget because it's politically convenient for them to do so.

Why people still consider these willfully ignorant morons worthy of anyone's time says a hell of a lot about the current intellectual state of America as a whole.

Wait, so there WAS a security briefing a month ago around a memo saying that some group was determined to stage concerted trash bin bombings during high profile public events? Because someone ignorant of that level of specific threat certainly WOULD be pretty moronic.

the_rev:what_now: This asshole set off a bomb near the Boston Public Library. Now I'm farking furious.

Not being smartass here... but... it was the bomb's proximity to a library that you find upsetting?

because some places tend to have more children near them, esp during the day.because some places have the veneer of being "safer". the grocery store, the safe neighborhood that you live in, church.

if you get mugged in a dark alley, in a gang infested area, late at night, walking alone, drunk; well no one is surprised. but when a bomb goes off in church on sunday, during sunday school; people think that this is the safest place on earth.

this is why terrorism is effective, it removes "safe" our regular lives.

I can't wait until Fartbongo's National Security Advisor goes before Congress and testifies about why they ignored that presidential daily briefing memo from about a month ago that was entitled "[NAME OF PERSON RESPONSIBLE] DETERMINED TO ATTACK BOSTON MARATHON CROWD BY PLACING HOME MADE BOMBS AT FINISH LINE." Of course, he's not as attractive as Condoleeza Rice, so it probably won't get any coverage on the liberal media when he does.

Say, wasn't *Dead or Alive* OBL out of Kandahar, December, 2001? And then Bush held up sending the cavalry into Tora Bora, early, 2002? And a few weeks after that, Bush: OBL not that important anymore.